时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:午后咖啡


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unit08 Accident Reports 交通事故报告


“A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.”


“I turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a different direction going the opposite way.”


“No one was to blame for the accident, but it never would have happened if the other driver had been alert.”


“Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.”


 


“I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood 1 of my car.”


“The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.”


“I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.”


“The other car collided with mine without warning of its intention.”


“I was backing my car out of the driveway in the usual manner when it was struck by the other car in the same place where it had been struck several times before.”


“I was unable to stop in time, and my car crashed into the other vehicle. The driver and the passengers left immediately for a vacation with injuries.”


“I was sure the old guy would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.”


“I was taking my canary to the hospital. It got loose in the car and flew out the window. The next thing I saw was his tail, and there was a crash.”


“I told the police that I was not injured, but on removing my hat, I found that I had a fractured skull 2.”


“The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve 3 a number of times before hitting him.”


“When I could not avoid a collision, I stepped on the gas and crashed into the other car.”


“As I approached the intersection 4, a stop sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before. I was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident.”


"To avoid hitting the bumper 5 of the car in front, I struck the pedestrian."


“In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.”


“The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end.”


“The accident occurred when I was attempting to bring my car out of a skid 6 by steering 7 it into the other vehicle.”


“An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished.”


“I was trown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows.”



1 hood
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
2 skull
n.头骨;颅骨
  • The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
  • He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去,跌裂了颅骨。
3 swerve
v.突然转向,背离;n.转向,弯曲,背离
  • Nothing will swerve him from his aims.什么也不能使他改变目标。
  • Her car swerved off the road into a 6ft high brick wall.她的车突然转向冲出了马路,撞向6英尺高的一面砖墙。
4 intersection
n.交集,十字路口,交叉点;[计算机] 交集
  • There is a stop sign at an intersection.在交叉路口处有停车标志。
  • Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.桥用来避免铁路和公路直接交叉。
5 bumper
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
6 skid
v.打滑 n.滑向一侧;滑道 ,滑轨
  • He braked suddenly,causing the front wheels to skid.他突然剎车,使得前轮打了滑。
  • The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.警察检查了车轮滑行痕迹,以判断汽车当时开得有多快。
7 steering
n.操舵装置
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration. 他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
  • Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵,口吻也马上变得温和了。
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